This group began meeting in the fall of 1998, organized around tutorial presentations and discussions of background reading. Over time, it has developed into a forum for presentation and discussion of research results and research in progress, and last year, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) joined the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) as a sponsor. During the 2003-2004 academic year, scheduling and notification are being handled by Marisa Pagano. To be added to the mailing list, please contact Laurel Sweeney.
Meetings take place on Wednesdays from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., roughly every other week, in the IRCS large seminar room (room 470), 3401 Walnut St., Suite 400A. Meetings will sometimes shift to Thursday or Friday morning, to accommodate the schedule of a visiting speaker. Click here for directions to IRCS.
When indicated below, advance reading material will be available on line, or in paper form from the IRCS reception desk.
Special thanks goes to Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc. for its
partial financial support of this series.
Some presentations (marked *) are supported by Penn's Center for Functional Neuroimaging.
Schedule for the Spring term, 2004:
Schedule for the Fall term, 2003:
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
Advance Readings |
| 9/17/03 | *Ken Pugh, Ph.D. | Department of Pediatrics (Neurology) - Yale University School of Medicine and Haskins Laboratories | Methodological Issues in Neuroimaging studies of Skilled Reading and Reading Disability: Establishing brain/behavior links | |
| 10/1/03 | Ofer Tchernichovski, Ph.D. - IRCS Short Term Visitor | Dept. of Biology, The City College of CUNY |
Tracking the entire vocal learning process in the zebra finch | |
| 10/15/03 | John van Swieten, Ph.D. | Erasmus University, Rotterdam | Language and other cognitive dysfunctions in patients with FTDP-17 | |
| 11/5/03 | Malcolm McNeil, Ph.D. | Department of Communication Sciences, University of Pittsburgh |
The Nature and Diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech | Copies of these papers are available at IRCS McNeil, M.R., Robin, D.A. & Schmidt, R.A. Apraxia of speech: Definition, differentiation and treatment. In: M.R. McNeil (Ed.), Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers. 311-344, 1997. McNeil, M.R., Doyle, P.J. & Wambaugh, J. Apraxia of Speech: A treatable disorder of motor planning & programming, In: S.E. Nadeau, L.J. Gonzales Rothi, & B. Crosson & (Eds.), Aphasia and Language: Theory to Practice, New York: Guilford Publications, pp 221-266, 2000. |
| 11/19/03 | Carol Lippa, M.D. | Drexel University |
Neurodegenerative diseases: Linking symptoms with the underlying disease process | |
| 12/3/03 | Yaakov Stern, Ph.D. | Neurology, Columbia University | What Is Cognitive Reserve? | What is cognitive reserve? Theory and research application of the reserve concept; Exploring the Neural Basis of Cognitive Reserve; and Association of Life Activities with Cerebral Blood Flow in Alzheimer Disease |